Released: Contact Form Package
While building a website last week, I was looking for a way to make a simple contact form. Unfortunately, there was nothing available on our.umbraco.org. So I made my own package and it is now available for download. I've also added a tip to the forum to show how you can relay mail through Gmail if you don't have (or want) a mail server on your hosting machine.
Here's a few screenshots to show that it is highly configurable:
Of course you can just enter some content and add the bodyText field to your template to make it show up on the contact page. Here you can see I added a "Thank you" page. After the website visitor submits the form, they will be redirected here. You can configure any other page that you want.
Here again a reference to the thank you page. The form is completely empty by default so it might be a good idea to fill in the label names here.
The error messages are also empty by default, add whatever text you need here.
And finally you can set up some properties for the mail that will be sent.
Hi - great work!
The best contact form i found for umbraco.
But i can't integrate it in the masterpage because i (and otners too) have Problems with the form tags: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/cultiv-contact-form/requests-and-questions/4411-Error-on-use---A-page-can-have-only-one-server-side-Form-tag
any Ideas?
greetz
Sewi
I've installed and setup the form as instructed but cannot get any of the labels, validation or buttons to render.
I am using: umbraco v 4.0.3 (Assembly version: 1.0.3625.27276)
Do you have any ideas?
Best wishes,
Bill Smith
A good form - but I'm with Sebastian here - I need to incorporate it in my masterpage and get the same error - any progress on a solution?
Cheers
Dave
Sorry - forgot to say - I'm using Umbraco 4.5.2 if that makes any difference
Dave
The solution would be to remove the extra form runat="server" tag. However, I don't know what other forms you're using on that page.
If you absolutely need 2 forms that run at the server on that page, make sure to add validationgroups to each form. For this package, you'd need to change the source as it's not built in (I have no plans of updating it any time soon either, I just don't have the time at the moment).
Hi Sebastiaan
OK, maybe a simpler solution would be to open the window containing the contact form as a modal window and then close it when the email is sent, but I'm a noob to Umbraco and cannot see how to achieve this.
Any thoughts?
Dave
Sounds like a plan! I've used the jQuery fancybox plugin for that in the past. It can open an iframe inside of the pop-up.
Come to think of it: you could also put the contact form in an iframe. This is not specific to Umbraco, it's just a bit of HTML (and maybe using the fancybox plugin).